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08 Election Daily News Clips
July 8th, 2008
Candidate Tracking:
***All times in Eastern Standard Time
8am McCain: Appears on CNN's "American Morning," "Fox and Friends" and
MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
12pm McCain: Speech to LULAC Convention in Washington, D.C.
5:20pm McCain: Tour Stop in Moon Township, Pennsylvania
News Clips:
MCCAIN ECONOMIC SPEECH NEWS
For McCain, a shift in emphasis from tax cuts to deficits (International
Herald-Tribune 7/8/08)
[Same as NYT's "McCain Plan for Budget: Fiscal Hawks vs. Tax Foes"]
By Michael Cooper
As Senator John McCain kicked off a week of economic-themed campaigning here
on Monday, it was apparent that some of the underlying tensions between the
two schools that guide his economic thinking — the supply-siders who want to
cut taxes and the deficit hawks who want to balance the budget — remain
unresolved.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/08/america/07cndecon.php
Skepticism on McCain Plan To Balance Budget by 2013 (NYT 7/8/08)
By ROBERT PEAR
The package of spending and tax cuts proposed by Senator John McCain is
unlikely to achieve his goal of balancing the federal budget by 2013,
economists and fiscal experts said Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/us/politics/08budget.html?ref=politics
McCain, Obama duel on economic fix-it plans (AP 7/7/08)
By CHARLES BABINGTON and LIZ SIDOTI
Barack Obama and John McCain agree on this much: The economy is staggering
under the Bush administration, and Americans are hurting. But who's to blame
and how best to fix it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070701627.html
*Link to transcript of McCain's Prepared Speech for Denver Town Hall Meeting
with Question and Answer Session:*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070701672.html?sid=ST2008070702343&pos=list
*Link to video*:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/07/07/VI2008070701653.html
McCain, Obama focus on economic recovery plans (LA Times 7/8/08)
By Maeve Reston and Louise Roug
McCain renews a pledge to balance the federal budget. Obama ridicules the
Republican's new tax cuts.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign8-2008jul08,0,2360555.story
*See WSJ's "Economy Takes Spotlight":*
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121543453269332371.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox
*See ABC's "McCain and Obama Campaign on Economic Agenda":*
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5326069&page=1
McCain talks money (Denver Post 7/8/08)
By Karen E. Crummy
As president, Republican John McCain says he would be ready to do "the hard
things" to ensure that the U.S. government is held to the same budgetary
standard as American families.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9812214
McCain promises tax cut for families at Denver campaign stop (Rocky Mountain
News 7/7/08)
By Lynn Bartels
Presidential contender John McCain focused on the economy at a rowdy town
hall meeting Monday in Denver where he pledged to make government "a
catalyst for growth and good jobs."
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/07/mccain-pledges-tax-relief-job-growth-during-denver/
McCain Talks Jobs, Stresses Balancing Federal Budget (The Page 7/7/08)
Arizonan unveils retooled jobs plan focused on small businesses in Denver
town hall.... "A government that spends wisely and balances its budget is a
catalyst for economic growth and the creation of good and secure jobs."
http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/07/mccain-talks-jobs-proposes-plan-to-balance-budget-by-2013/
*Link to video*:
http://thepage.time.com/mccain-speaks-on-the-economy-in-denver/
*Link to outline of economic plan:*
http://thepage.time.com/official-mccain-camp-economic-policy/
*Link to McCain memo on economy*:
http://thepage.time.com/mccain-camp-memo-on-obamas-economic-plan/
*Link to Obama response memo*:
http://thepage.time.com/obama-camp-response-to-mccain-economic-memo/
Protester outside McCain event ticketed (Denver Post 7/7/08)
By Joey Bunch
A 60-year-old librarian received a trespassing ticket today after a liberal
group's protest outside a John McCain town hall meeting Monday.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9811687
*Link to ProgressNowAction press release: *
http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/al/Cqyh
*Link to video*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyaMrS0hzk
McCain Renews Balanced Budget Pledge (Washington Post blog 7/7/08)
By Michael D. Shear
Sen. John McCain pledged today to balance the federal budget by 2013, the
end of his first term in office, returning to a promise he had strayed from
as he sought to emphasize his concern about the plight of the American
economy.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/07/mccain_renews_balanced_budget.html
McCain, Republican leaders differ on solutions to fix ailing economy (The
Hill 7/7/08)
By Jackie Kucinich
The release of Sen. John McCain's (Ariz.) economic plan on Monday
highlighted two issues — drug re-importation and earmark reform — that
divide the GOP presidential standard-bearer and Republican leaders on
Capitol Hill.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mccain-republican-leaders-differ-on-solutions-to-fix-ailing-economy-2008-07-07.html
McCain's Plan To Help Balance Budget: Win War In Iraq (TPM 7/7/08)
By Greg Sargent
The McCain campaign has responded to our request for clarification of its
plan to take all the money saved by victory in Iraq and Afghanistan and
devote all that booty to balancing the budget.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/mccains_plan_to_balance_budget.php
What the economists didn't sign (Politico blog 7/7/08)
By Avi Zenilman
This morning, the McCain campaign sent out a press release: OVER 300
ECONOMISTS SIGN STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF JOHN MCCAIN'S ECONOMIC PLAN. The
statement leaves out two big chunks of McCain's economic argument: the gas
tax holiday and his promise to balance the budget by the end of his first
term -- there's literally nothing in the release that mentions the deficit
or national debt.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/What_the_economists_didnt_sign.html
MCCAIN'S PLAN TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, OR DRASTICALLY RAISE
TAXES (American Prospect blog 7/7/08)
By Ezra Klein
You know the old saying, "misses the forest for the trees?" In political
headlines, there should be an analogue: "Misses the policies for the press
releases." Take Mike Allen's article entitled "McCain Promises to Balance
Budget." Everyone promises to balance the budget. It's like telling your
dentist that you floss every night. If that's actually what's in the story,
then the article shouldn't have been written.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=07&year=2008&base_name=mccains_plan_to_cut_social_sec
MCCAIN NEWS
Candidates Diverge on How to Save Social Security (Washington Post 7/8/08)
By Perry Bacon Jr.; A01
Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are both proposing dramatic changes to
Social Security, taking on the financially fragile "third rail of American
politics" that Congress and recent presidents have been unable to repair.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702773.html
Internal Politics Heat Up at McCain Campaign (NYT 7/8/08)
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Senator John McCain's campaigns have long been defined by internal
squabbling and power plays, zigzagging lines of command and a penchant by
the candidate for consulting with former advisers without alerting current
ones, always a recipe for disquiet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/us/politics/08mccain.html?ref=politics
Clinton diehards throw support behind McCain (UK's The Independent 7/8/08)
By Leonard Doyle
Many of Hillary Clinton's most prominent supporters, including a number of
her famous "Hillraisers," are either defecting to the Republican John McCain
or withholding their support from the Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/clinton-diehards-throw-support-behind-mccain-862066.html
McCain Balances Dueling Stances on Immigration (WSJ 7/8/08)
By Elizabeth Holmes
Early in the Republican nominating contest, Sen. John McCain bucked his
party's base with a moderate stance on immigration, offering illegal
immigrants a path to citizenship.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121548110158934579.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_leftbox
McCain campaign, Act II (LA Times 7/8/08)
By Maeve Reston
The candidate has a new stage manager. How'd he perform?
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailmccain8-2008jul08,0,2131841.story
How McCain Is Skirting His Own Spending Caps (Newsweek blog 7/7/08)
By Andrew Romano
Republicans, it seems, are finally showing McCain the money. ... And even
though McCain has agreed to an $84.1 spending limit by accepting public
funds--a decision he likes to portray as a principled stand against the
corrupting influence of money on politics--at least double that sum will be
dropped on his behalf before Election Day thanks to loopholes in the law
that allow outside groups to effectively skirt such limits with largely
unregulated "soft money" contributions.
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/07/07/for-mccain-money-talks.aspx
*Link to RNC ad*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m177GGrwMV0
McCain, Obama to Court Latinos Tuesday (The Page 7/8/08)
Both speak to the League of United Latin American Citizens at its 79th
annual convention in Washington, D.C. McCain intends to keep focus on jobs,
reiterating most of Monday's proposal, including the importance of small
businesses and taking indirect swipes at Obama on taxes. "There are two
million Latino owned businesses in America, a number that is growing very
rapidly. The first consideration we should have when debating tax policy is
how we can help those companies grow…"
http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/08/mccain-obama-to-court-latinos-tuesday/
*Link to excerpts of McCain's LULAC remarks*:
http://thepage.time.com/excerpts-from-mccains-remarks-to-lulac/
McCain newly assertive on judicial philosophy (Politico 7/8/08)
By: Avi Zenilman and Ben Adler
Despite his background as a lawyer and law lecturer at the University of
Chicago, Barack Obama has said little from the stump about legal issues,
particularly what sort of justices he'd want on the Supreme Court, whose
makeup is likely to be shaped for decades to come by the next president's
nominees.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11554.html
Voter advocacy group's board boots McCain (Arizona Republic 7/8/08)
By Dan Nowicki
In April, Project Vote Smart officially dismissed John McCain from its board
for failing to complete a candidate questionnaire called the "National
Political Courage Test."
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/07/08/20080708kimball0708.html
Fight of the Flip-Floppers (TIME 7/7/08)
By Ramesh Ponnuru
John McCain is trying to take the halo off Barack Obama and portray him as a
typical flip-flopping politician. "He's a calculating politician," Senator
Lindsey Graham, a top McCain ally, says of Obama in a typical remark. Obama
is making the Republicans' work easy. He is changing position after
position, at the cost of sullying his reputation as a man who wants to
change politics as usual. The candidates' strategies dovetail perfectly —
which means one of them is making a big mistake.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1820727,00.html
McCain adviser steers clear of entitlements (Politico blog 7/7/08)
By Jonathan Martin
Asked on a conference call with reporters just how John McCain would balance
the budget by 2013, his top economic adviser offered the usual
recipe. "Broad-based efforts at controlling discretionary spending, rapid
[economic] growth and reviewing programs for their effectiveness." Of
course, with McCain's proposed tax cuts, that still may not get the country
to a balanced budget.... McCain, noted his adviser, "has a long history of
being able to reach across the aisle" to address policy issues. ... It's the
issue that dare not speak its name during a campaign -- what to do about
those entitlements that take up a much larger slice of the federal budget
than any earmarks McCain wants to cut.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/McCain_adviser_steers_clear_of_entitlements.html
Fiorina's Fuzzy Math (TIME blog 7/7/08)
by Jay Newton-Small
This morning at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Carly Fiorina made the
case that Obama's proposed tax hike on those who make more than $250,000 a
year would be damaging to small businesses. ...Fiorina was building on a
Bush arguement from 2004.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/07/fiorinas_fuzzy_math.html
Risky Business (Washington Post 7/8/08)
By Dana Milbank; A03
The waiters were still clearing the breakfast dishes yesterday when John
McCain's most prominent adviser raised the subject of erection
enhancement. Carly Fiorina... was discussing consumer-driven health
insurance at a breakfast with reporters when she proposed "a real, live
example which I've been hearing a lot about from women: There are many
health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control
medication. Those women would like a choice." For effect, the woman
frequently mentioned as a possible McCain running mate repeated: "Those
women would like a choice."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702265.html
Cindy McCain to travel to Rwanda (CNN 7/7/08)
By Emily Sherman
Cindy McCain said Monday she will make a humanitarian trip to Rwanda next
week. [She] plans to spend four days on the ground in the war-torn African
nation on a trip organized by the non-partisan ONE campaign, as part of a
group visiting USAID health clinics, schools, and an orphanage.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/07/cindy-mccain-to-travel-to-rwanda/
Chocolate Lovers (The Page 7/7/08)
The McCains buy fudge, a peanut butter cup, and cherry truffles during a
10-minute stop at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in downtown Denver on
Monday. John McCain also shakes hands, signs autographs outside the store.
Jokes some in the press need "help" that can't come from the chocolate
store.
http://thepage.time.com/2008/07/07/chocolate-lovers/
*Link to Pool Report of the McCains' Denver Chocolate Store Stop:*
http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-of-the-mccains-denver-chocolate-store-stop/
McCain operative rocketed to power working for Crist (Palm Beach Post
7/5/08)
By JANE MUSGRAVE
Four years ago, Beth Kigel was living in Broward County and her political
activity was pretty much limited to casting a vote on Election Day. Today
the 39-year-old single working mother of two is heading up Sen. John
McCain's presidential campaign in Palm Beach County, has Gov. Charlie
Crist's ear, is second in the county GOP's command and is headed to the
Republican National Convention as an alternate delegate. ... Privately,
however, some question Kigel's motives and wonder whether her job as a
lobbyist conflicts with her role as vice chairman of the county Republican
Executive Committee and with McCain's recent announcement that no lobbyists
would be allowed to work on his campaign.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/07/05/m1a_kigel_0706.html
OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS
Putting your foot into the current of history (Boston Globe 7/8/08)
By Derrick Z. Jackson
IT MAY have been the only time that John McCain and Barack Obama have
criticized President Bush in the same language. McCain has said, "I think
after 9/11 that we made a mistake. I think after 9/11, instead of telling
Americans to take a trip or go shopping, I think we had an opportunity to
serve." Obama has said, "Instead of a call to service, we were asked to go
shopping."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/07/08/putting_your_foot_into_the_current_of_history/
A flimsy vow on the budget (USA Today blog 7/8/08)
Sen. John McCain earned a reputation for fiscal responsibility by
challenging colleagues' pork-barrel spending and opposing the Bush tax cuts
in 2001. Then he reversed himself, endorsing the Bush tax cuts and vowing to
veto any tax increases. Now, in a plan unveiled Monday, he has returned to
the cause of balancing the federal budget, promising to do so by 2013.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/07/a-flimsy-vow-on.html#more
Finding Common Ground With Russia (Washington Post 7/8/08)
By Henry A. Kissinger; A15
President Bush's meeting with Dmitry Medvedev in Hokkaido yesterday provides
an opportunity to review American relations with the new Russian leadership.
Conventional wisdom treated Medvedev's inauguration as president of the
Russian Federation as a continuation of President Vladimir Putin's two terms
of Kremlin dominance and assertive foreign policy. But after recently
visiting Moscow, where I met with leading political personalities as well as
those in business and intellectual circles, I am convinced that this
judgment is premature.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702218.html
BUSH NEWS
Medvedev: No progress with US after Bush meeting (AP 7/8/08)
By STEVE GUTTERMAN
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that his meeting with
President Bush at a summit of the Group of Eight industrial powers resulted
in no progress toward bridging deep disagreements between the former Cold
War foes.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hCOYweIJt-kh8b4ExcLZyWq4UhWwD91PK6SO0
Bush Pushes Hard Line on Zimbabwe at G-8 (NYT 7/8/08)
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
As world leaders convened in this resort town in northern Japan on Monday
for three days of talks on issues including climate change and rising food
and energy prices, the agenda quickly shifted to the political crisis in
Zimbabwe, exposing a split between Western and African leaders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/world/asia/08prexy.html?ref=africa
No consensus on climate after Bush, Merkel talk (AP 7/8/08)
By TOM RAUM
President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged today to keep
working together on common problems, but progress appeared slow on reaching
a consensus on climate change as the Group of Eight major economies tackled
that and other knotty global issues.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008038562_g808.html
OTHER TOP NEWS
G-8 Leaders Pledge to Cut Emissions in Half by 2050 (NYT 7/9/08)
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and ALAN COWELL
Pledging to "move toward a low-carbon society," leaders of the world's
richest nations on Tuesday endorsed the idea of cutting greenhouse gas
emissions in half by 2050, but failed to set a short-term goal for reducing
the toxic heat-trapping gases that scientists say are warming the planet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/science/earth/09climate.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
Fed to Clamp Down on Exotic and Subprime Loans (NYT 7/9/08)
By STEPHEN LABATON
With no end in sight to the turbulence in the housing and financial markets,
the chairman of the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday morning that it would
issue new lending rules next week to restrict exotic mortgages and high-cost
loans for people with weak credit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/business/09housing.html?hp
Maliki Suggests U.S. Troop Timetable (Washington Post 7/8/08)
By Sudarsan Raghavan and Karen DeYoung; A01
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing
a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a step that the
Bush administration has long opposed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070700364.html?hpid=topnews
Afghanistan blames 'foreign intelligence' for embassy blast (AFP 7/8/08)
Afghanistan accused "foreign intelligence" of a role in an attack that
killed 41 people at the Indian embassy as the Taliban insisted Tuesday they
did not carry out the capital's deadliest suicide blast.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hj-Ds2uhzJSXUpjrA599TI0HewpA
Vehicle bombings in Iraq at lowest level in nearly 4 years (USA Today
7/8/08)
By Tom Vanden Brook
Car and truck bomb attacks have fallen to their lowest level in Iraq in
almost four years, according to the military command in Baghdad and a
private firm that tracks violence there.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-07-07-carbomb_N.htm
GOP seeks Dem supporters on drilling (Politico 7/8/08)
By: Martin Kady II and Patrick O'Connor
Will some moderate Dems consider law balancing energy exploration with
conservation?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11580.html
POLLS
'Old guy' vs 'change:' McCain, Obama images take shape (AP 7/7/08)
By Alan Fram and Trevor Tompson
Now more than ever, it's the old guy against the agent of change. Ask people
to blurt out their first words about the two presidential candidates and one
in five say "change" or "outsider" for Barack Obama and "old" for John
McCain, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Monday.
Those are not only the top responses for each man but the answers that have
grown the most since January, when fewer than one in 10 volunteered those
descriptions.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-07-07-candidates-images_N.htm
Poll: Pet owners favor McCain (AP 7/8/08)
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
If the presidential election goes to the dogs, John McCain is looking like
best in show.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i23gT19o6C2I8dWDUfq6V5lES61QD91PKIUG0
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Deputy Director of Tracking & Media Monitoring
Progressive Accountability Office
[email protected]
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